Lila continues to recover nicely from her surgery. We've definitely had some ups and downs, but overall, she's doing great! Since most of her recovery took place over the long Fourth of July weekend, we didn't make any exciting plans.
Weekends without plans are a rare treat for us! The four of us enjoyed being home together and spent lots of time at Grammy's pool. Since our local fireworks were cancelled due to budget concerns, :( we had casual family BBQ's and watched the fireworks different neighbors were setting off.
Here's Lila - our pool-headed American Girl. For those of you who aren't aware of this tradition, Ryan is proudly wearing his Old Navy 2002 4th of July shirt. You can't tell in this picture, but he has used fabric paint each year to neatly cross out the previous year and add the current one. It's pretty much a collector's item now, and he brags about never giving Old Navy another $5 for a flag shirt.
The girls are waiting for the neighbors to do something cool, since we didn't have any cool fireworks of our own - only glow bracelets that Ryan threw up in the air to simulate fireworks. :)
Here we all are watching the faint spark of the neighbors' dwindling "firework flower".
Oooooh! Ahhhhh!
This neighbor had good ones!
2 comments:
Ummmm
1. Love Emma's dress!!!!
2. Our 4th consisted of a police officer driving by to issue a warning about our shower cones, that, honestly, were not reaching over 8 inches from the ground(yes, fireworks are illegal within city limits). The boys were thrilled to have had an encounter with the local law enforcement.
missed spending the 3rd in our traditional way ... seemed like something was missing
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